cminusminus.org does not have a link to the spec

[Carter Schonwald]

the historical c-- page still lives where norman moved it
www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html

(and has all the content still)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Sergei
>
> C-- was originally envisaged as a target language for a variety of
> compilers.  But in fact LLVM, which was developed at a similar time, "won"
> that race and has built a far larger ecosystem.  That's fine with us --
> it's great how successful LLVM has been -- but it means that C-- is now
> used essentially only in GHC.
>
> I'm not sure where the original C-- documents now are; Norman can you say?
> (I do know that the cminusminus.org has lapsed.)
>
> The GHC variant of C-- is defined mainly by the Cmm data type in GHC's
> source code.  It does have a concrete syntax, because some bits of GHC's
> runtime system are written in Cmm. But I fear that this concrete language
> is not well documented.  (Simon Marlow may know more here.)
>
> Because GHC's Cmm is part of GHC, we are free to change it.  Would you
> like to say more about the change you want to make, and why you want to
> make it?  Is this relating directly to GHC or to some other project?
>
> Simon
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Sergei Trofimovich [mailto:slyich at gmail.com]
> | Sent: 14 September 2014 17:16
> | To: Simon Peyton Jones
> | Subject: cminusminus.org does not have a link to the spec
> |
> | Hello Simon!
> |
> | I had a plan to tweak a bit "import" statement
> | syntax of Cmm in GHC.
> |
> | Namely, to distinct between
> |     import some_c_function;
> |     import some_c_global_variable;
> |
> | To try it I first attempted to find latest c-- spec
> | (to find some design sketches if available) at
> |
> |     http://www.cminusminus.org/c-downloads/
> |
> | But seems the links (and images?) have gone away
> | as well as rsync server described at:
> |
> |     http://www.cminusminus.org/the-c-rsync-server/
> |
> | Maybe you could forward it to site admins so they would
> | tweak links or point me to working copy.
> |
> | Apologies for bothering you on such minor
> |
> | Thank you!
> |
> | --
> |
> |   Sergei
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